TERRIBLE DEATH LIST.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 945, 12 October 1910, Page 5

TERRIBLE DEATH LIST.

FIVE HUNDRED PERSONS HOME.•S-.:■.:.'■ ■■)■;. O;-.. less...:;■;..;.;;■-.■;;■. ; ' ;/;WOMEN ROBBED'OF JEWELS. 1 .-'.: \.,':. -' (Reo. .October 11, 10.5 - p.m.);' ■.;':..-' ■ '.' '-London, October 11. : ;. At-Beaudette there are .400 dead. Two: hundred.- and fif tyriiine v bodie3 have been recovered.':. ;.':-■■ : .■"•:.■..■'-...■ • The corpses were found, smouldering in heap's: V : ;:' '' ;: ":>■ '.'. V ; ' : :.'.-'>■ 'V -.';' ■'■'"}■ i , ;T>o.; hundred/typhoid patients were hastily removed-from the; Beaudette Hospital, and many:, are now.; dying.' ~ .The. logging-mills■ and- a;.,vast area of forest ■ are 'burning. ■•'' Five; hundred" 'persons, 'aroi-homclcssivV .■■.'■'■. .-; ,'.- '.in,the; stricken, .towns have 'been; robbing :wbmen. of'.jewels. ...,',".; ; .Wild,' animals; raced. "before' the., flames ; with::hnman beings.;--;:;- ':'::'■: ■ ■>?■>-A '■ .Special;trains.are bringing the ; refugees. Superior.;'';.. ; .Mr. : Prhchot,'."'the' : United; ; States : 'CTiie-f' ;Forester under ;Mr. Roosevelt,' in praising 'the work'! of -the ;.men; of: the/Forest • Service/'.says:—: :':;■;';-. y'A: ;':'■■ ' A' .•'.;": ',;.;' ■'. ;'.-'Torek, fires: are;preventable.- It is, a ;godd .thing for. ..us to.'remembex'at this' I'.time.:that nearly or quite, all. of the loss, suffering,' and .death: these fires,:'.lave. caused.is' wholly;; unnecessary.'. A;nre in the:forest ; is the; same.kind of.',thing'as : a. I fire-inithe•city..:,, Thepe'is;only one way .to■-.fight;either.■;The.ftToldepartment of. every;-city.: is ; organised;; .with ;■'. the'' prime idea.'of .'getting' to the' fife when.. it is young. ,:So:with';forest' firesj; -The time tto ~conquei..7 them, w-'before ' they :"■ grow eWhg. /•.'.if.'a•;forest'is: :equipped'-with. roade,':trails, .telephone lines, and a rea-' ;sonable;number of. men I :forrpatrol .there is no ; mor,e: likelihood - that great fires'will, ■ be; able to get started than; there 1 is ;that t' reat.-'.ooh'ffagratio'iifi - liflr© : -the.<.Chicago, .re ','will' 'get/ Btarfed •: in r the : oity - with. amodern fire department'. . 'O'nderTare.'oircumstanoes.; ;they; 'may, :'but : the chances' ;are';against:.it.;'V:-:. ■ ■ v^'■'V'"'ii : v- J ; "The Forest: Service bia done wonders with ;its -handful -of devoted -men. It; has : -put,i'out■■every-/'year' , :mahy-:.thousandß'of 'small' fires, .any one' of .which : under': £av-' ourable xonditions might'ha;ve. developed .into'•. a.. conflagration;: which : ten 'thousand mtni.couldnot'etop. ;.Thia;year;' because .of >. the^great' drought—the;woxstinmuoh .of • the West .for.' more, than' twenty years^ 1 ,-there were 1 too' hiany; too' few ■■:;'.■'.'"■ .■;■:-■■'■.-':':! . ; :''-:'-' --'■ >-.•■■.'•':'.'